Gentoo Archives: gentoo-performance

From:

Gyujin Park <gpark@××××××.com>

To:

gentoo-performance@l.g.o

Subject:

Re: [gentoo-performance] swap?

Date:

Sat, 31 Jul 2004 17:03:41

Message-Id:

20040731170337.E497F38077@spy23.spymac.net

Thanks, all I'm just going to forget about 2004.2
I'm going back to 2004.0 with vanilla-sources.
Gentoo stability in 2004.2 isn't good. I just genkerneled 2.4 in other system
under 2004.2
It gives me some error outputs I didn't notice while I was installing on the test
server.
2004.0 won't probably effect anything, since portage has everything upto date.
Thanks all
-Tom-
On Sat Jul 31 10:57 , Bart Alewijnse <scarfboy@×××××.com> sent:

>Yeah, I told him that now, in a mail I just noticed I forgot to copy the gentoo
>list address into. gmail does NOT cooperate with mailing lists, *sigh*
>
>(Incidentally, I used the dd as a test on my own computer (384mb of
>mem) to see when it would start swapping out processes, in case you
>wondered why I suggested doing that)
>
>On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 12:44:09 -0400, Colin Kingsley ckingsley@×××××.com> wrote:
>> um. that makes NO sense at ALL.
>> Besides, youve missed the point that using 99% of your physical memory
>> is not a problem. However, the fact that /proc/sys/vm/swappiness does
>> not exist is extreemly wierd, maybe you need support for it compiled
>> into your kernel. While youre at it, maybe you need to check some
>> other parts of your kernel config. Make sure you have shared memory
>> support compiled into your kernel!
>
>That seems sensical. I know very little about the details of swapping,
>but I have swappiness as well (currenly running gentoo with, err, with
>kernel 2.6.8-rc2.mm1).
>
>However, from a quick google I think it might be a 2.6 feature; he
>runs a 2.4 kernel.
>
>--Bart Alewijnse
>
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